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Posted on 08/28/2026 8:54:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos
The U.S. military is experiencing a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack.
The U.S. defense official said the most concerning shortfall involves Patriot missile interceptors, which can shoot down Russia’s high-speed ballistic missiles. The NATO official confirmed the low inventories of Patriots among American and NATO forces in Europe. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters.
In the event of a Russian ballistic missile assault on, for example, a military headquarters or power plant, NATO could be in a similar position to Patriot-starved Ukraine and be forced “to take punch after punch in the mouth,” the U.S. defense official said.
In Europe, the American military “definitely” does not have enough Patriots to stop any possible sustained ballistic missile attack and would have “very limited” capability to defend against a single ballistic missile strike or a stray Russian missile that goes off course, the U.S. official said.
It illustrates the cascading fallout from Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran, a conflict that reaches the six-month mark on Friday. U.S. missile stocks in Europe have been moved to the Middle East, where U.S. and Gulf allies have fired off significant numbers of interceptors, including Patriots, to thwart Iran’s drones and missiles. Some of those attacks have killed and wounded American troops.
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“driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran”
Tells you all you need to know. AP is so full of chicom sh@t.
What kind of filthy pos would release information like this?
Like I don’t know, a democrat.
A little strange to blame only Iran conflict when we gave 600 to Ukraine
All the ones given to Ukraine don’t count /s
Time for some more housecleaning.
“...a U.S. defense official in Europe
and a NATO official told The Associated Press...”
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B.S.
News summary for tonight has a bunch of stories...
https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2026/08/news-summary-intelligence-report_0530878235.html
Aw Gee, that’s a shame.
Anyway.......
Not even joking that whoever told them that should be shot.
From the AssPress. Please
What kind of filthy pos would release information like this?
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Maybe someone like Vice President Vance.
After all, he warned of stockpile shortages last April.
The U.S. military is experiencing a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack.
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Well, we’re not at war in Europe now so it doesn’t matter for now. We need to continue ramping up production and we have time for that. Just sayin’.
Yes we have time for that because the war in Iran was won in the first week ..
This is all open source information, the entire world openly writes about production rates over the decades and the use rate over the decades and runs the numbers, the numbers are open and known by everyone and regularly reported.
I’m not convinced that there aren’t secret levels of storage that are never mentioned, but as far as this article, it is a part of the routine and open discussions based on the public numbers.
Gee…. If only there were people smart enough, and an large industrial base big enough, and an economy big enough, and the political will strong enough,
Then the Euroweenies could make enough to defend themselves.
Screw’em.
If not for this Ukraine proxy war there would be no shortage.
This has been reported before. Why do think they ordered a cease fire in the Iran war.
Did the "unnamed official" also provide a list of especially vulnerable potential targets the Russians should focus on?!
This sort of treason beggars belief!
Regards,
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